Artist Beryl Cook, age 81, dies at home in Plymouth

Updated Thursday, May 29, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Artist Beryl Cook, age 81, dies at home in Plymouth

LONDON -- Artist Beryl Cook, famed for her comical paintings of bulky ladies, has died aged 81, her spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Cook, who had no formal training and did not begin to paint in earnest until she was almost 40, died peacefully at her home in Plymouth.

“It’s a huge loss,” said her spokeswoman at the Portal Gallery where her work was first exhibited in London and where it has been displayed ever since. Cook left school at 14 “showing little talent for painting,” according to her website, and had a variety of jobs including working as a showgirl in a touring production of “The Gypsy Princess”. She began painting in the 1960s and had her first exhibition in Plymouth in 1975 to great acclaim.

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